Product managers have a responsibility to their team members to plan and execute development projects in such a way that mitigates the need for such soul-crushing marathon sessions, and the successful delivery of a project may depend on taking those steps.

It’s tough to predict where the next generation of innovators will take technology in the years ahead, but it helps to give them an inside look at what’s happening today. That’s one of the reasons Jama Software opened its doors on Jan. 31 to a group of students from Portland’s Rosemary Anderson High School.

During a keynote at CES 2018 in Las Vegas Nevada, NVIDIA’s Founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, took pause in his address to put an emphasis on a word and concept not often used in the semiconductor industry…

Partnerships are an invaluable component of Jama Software’s continued growth. While I’m extremely proud of the strides we’ve made in partnering with forward-thinking companies, there are plenty of opportunities to expand.

With a new year upon us, product managers can help themselves (and, by extension, their teams) by remembering some basic guidelines and good-sense strategies to ensure day-to-day stress doesn’t snowball.

During a December panel at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, moderator Trish Regan of Fox News asks, “Who do you consider to be the biggest threat in terms of having the most cutting-edge technology for their military right now?”

At the second-annual Health++, Stanford’s Health Hackathon, some of the brightest engineering, product design and technology minds in the world came together to put their knowledge and passion to use in an attempt to alleviate some of the world’s heaviest health challenges.

“We’re finding that in some parts of our regulatory portfolio, our traditional approach to overseeing certain health care products does not easily fit the types of innovations that are being developed,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. writes in a recent statement.

Using Jama to manage requirements and JIRA to monitor tasks separately is a totally viable solution for many product companies. Those forward-thinking businesses who take advantage of the powerful integration between the two see much stronger management of complexity, traceability, requirements and progress tracking.